[flickr size=”small” float=”right”]5687169316[/flickr]For the kids’ party I made placemats as party-favors for the guests. Basically I just printed large graphics with the kids’ names on them and laminated them. The laminating sheets came in a box of 100 so I’ve got a few to spare. Somewhere in my travels, I saw mention of “paint chip” placemats and I tucked the idea away in the cobwebby part of my brain. Then with 60+ laminating pouches at my disposal, the idea surfaced again.
So I fired up photoshop and divided off a 11×17″ (300 dpi) set of pixels into 4 rectangles with these white borders (100 pixel width). Then I filled in the rectangles with the various shades and added text layers for the colors’ names and a phony-baloney paint code below. I bought a few sheets worth of printing from our office color printer and brought them into corporeal being. A trip through the laminator and voila! Placemats!
They look very pretty on our incredibly scarred and scratched IKEA table (now in its 9th year of existence). Tabby always wants the purple one and tries to match/compliment the napkins with the placemats.
You are so crafty.
Really really cute!! I always love reading the names on paint chips, yours are so fun!!
That is a great idea! I always thought those paint chips were a craft project waiting to happen, but I could never figure out how. Then again, I’m also not very craft-inclined.
Those are so clever and they came out great! Thanks for sharing.